MP3: RiYL podcast 005: JesseÂ Thorn

Courtesy Photo Jesse Thornâ€™s tenacity may well be his defining characteristic. He graduated the same college the same year as me and kept right on doing what he had done all along. At first that meant sticking around the radio station and then taking the scary plunge into the world of podcasting when making a living in the field was a laughable dream at best (though things, arguably, havenâ€™t changed all... Source: boingboing.net

Click here to play the podcast. In this episode of the Gweek podcast I interviewed Ryan Holiday. Ryanâ€™s the author of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. He's a media strategist who started his career as an assistant to Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and is currently the director of marketing at American Apparel.Bonus! Here's an excerpt from Trust Me, I'm Lying.Irin Carmon, ...

Click here to play episode. Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder.In this week's episode we talk about Madcoaster, an endless runner game where you try to survive for as long as possible on a roller coaster. It's 99 cents in the iTunes store.Don't forget to be part of our "Listener Email" segment. If you would l...

In this episode of the Make: Talk podcast I interviewed Joel Murphy. He's an artist living in Brooklyn and owns a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designers. He teaches Physical Computing at Parsons the New School for Design, and he owns Rachelâ€™s Electronics, an online store for electronics kits and breakout boards. He's the co-creator of the Pulse Sensor, an Ardui...

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Two of my favorite people talk about one of my favorite topics, all on the same radio program. Our very own Maggie Koerth-Baker was interviewed by my friend (and former NPR colleague) Alex Chadwick on KCRW's daily show "To the Point" today, to talk about "Geoengineering and the fight against climate change."
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything; and when people repeat that wittic...

Click here to play episode. Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder.In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Subway Surfers, an endless runner game where you get caught painting graffiti on a train car and have to run away from the police. It's free in the iTunes store.In our listener email segment, we learned...